Hi,
For a requirement I need to Change the edited COBOL filed to numeric field. Like, the field is like $123,456,789. This field needs to be used in computation, how can I do that?
Changing the edited COBOL filed to numeric field.
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Robert Sample
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Re: Changing the edited COBOL filed to numeric field.
Use FUNCTION NUMVALC to convert it back to a number.
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Ashish Mathew
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Robert Sample
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Re: Changing the edited COBOL filed to numeric field.
Except NUMVAL does not handle currency symbols while NUMVALC does. Since the posted example has a currency symbol, that is why I recommended NUMVALC over NUMVAL.
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